- Location
- South Wales UK
Marvellous how they do it in Jersey on the banks and cliffs with their wire rope ploughing systems etc.
Also funny how the soil stays there.
Also funny how the soil stays there.
The real "Jersey Royal Potato " Production system?
- Thread starter Pilatus
- Start date
How does the soil stay there ????
borderterribles
Member
- Location
- South Shropshire
I've been on the cotils around Gorey that @crazy_bull mentioned above. It didn't take any jiggery-pokery to impress upon me just how steep they are.A friend I played rugby with used to take the photos of the steep potato fields that were used in the adverts. He readily admitted (to me) that there was some jiggery-pokery used (in the days before Photoshop) to make the fields appear much steeper than they really were
- Location
- S. Staffs
Took some photos of the slopes covered in plastic last year, but the photos don't really show how steep they are !
- Location
- Huntingdon
david
Member
- Location
- County Down
I was once told that they applied Vydate granules using a watering can to control the PCN
- Location
- S. Staffs
- Location
- S. Staffs
As I said the photos don’t really show the slope too well but I wouldn’t want to work on them!
guernseydonkey
Member
- Location
- guernsey channel islands.
They still gather seaweed, but I don't think it is as common as years ago, less solid manure used as well now, so that will affect taste/flavour...
- Location
- East Yorkshire
Lack of flavour is the theme that I’m hearing. I wonder what the growers themselves think.
Are potatoes grown in any quantity on Guernsey, why only “Jersey Royals”??
multi power
Member
- Location
- pembrokeshire
Lack of flavour is a common issue with an awful lot of potatoes now
guernseydonkey
Member
- Location
- guernsey channel islands.
pot
potatoes are grown, mainly for prepacks for local shops, IMO , they are ok up until about october, while they are 2nd earlies, main crop are usually full of damage,and full of bibeets, oops, guernsey word there, i meant full of insects and worms etc boring in for a winter feed, so imported m&s ones are a firm favourite, no protein hiding inside them ,and no losing 1/2 the spud to damage when you peel them..
guernseydonkey
Member
- Location
- guernsey channel islands.
for those of you that use faceache, this is worth a look..
https://www.facebook.com/TheJerseyRoyalCompany/
https://www.facebook.com/TheJerseyRoyalCompany/
Av Gorritt
Member
- Location
- NE Ches / SE Lancs
Had a couple of packs of Jersey Royals recently , and been quite disappointed in them . Got a pack of "Norfolk Keepers " today , never heard of them before , but when I read the pack it says they're "old new potatoes stored in refrigerated conditions " They weren't any better either ! Why can't we just have decent newly lifted new potatoes , thin skinned and absolutely wonderful lightly boiled and served with a goodly lashing of butter ? (or am I just an old anachronism , and there aint no such thing these days .)
- Location
- Down south
We’ve been lifting exactly that in Cornwall for 6 weeks now, can’t beat a Cornish early, it really gets my goat when old set skinned potatoes are sold as new!
- Location
- S. Staffs
Best for taste after the Jersey mids used to be Pembroke earlies, don’t know what variety they would have been back then (50s-60s)
With supermarkets and prepacking they seem all the same nowadays.
With supermarkets and prepacking they seem all the same nowadays.
Av Gorritt
Member
- Location
- NE Ches / SE Lancs
Must be the shops I buy at - never see REAL new pots!.
Feel sorry for youngsters because they probably won't ever taste the food we had. They'll be resigned to bland stuff made to have some taste by covering with sauce or spices? The appearance of Roosters gives some hope for the future however but they cost more. Anyway they're brainwashed by these TV cookery programs where artwork is more important than taste.
My God, these TV Chefs even peel potatoes before they boil them. Absolutely no idea!
My God, these TV Chefs even peel potatoes before they boil them. Absolutely no idea!